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The file types addressed by individual file comparison apps varies but may include text, symbols, images, audio, or video. This category of software tool is often called "file comparison" or "diff tool", but those effectively are equivalent terms — where the term "diff" is more commonly associated with the Unix diff utility.
WinMerge is a free software tool for data comparison and merging of text-like files. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions. It is useful for determining what has changed between versions, and then merging changes between versions.
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool, targeted at developers. It allows users to compare two or three files or directories visually, color-coding the different lines. Meld can be used for comparing files, directories, and version controlled repositories.
WinDiff is a graphical file comparison program published by Microsoft, distributed with Microsoft Windows Support Tools, [1] [2] certain versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, and as source-code with the Platform SDK code samples.
ExamDiff Pro is a commercial software utility for visual file and directory comparison, for Microsoft Windows. ExamDiff Pro has a double-pane view that allows side-by-side comparisons, with color-coded line numbers indicating whether each line is added, deleted, or changed. ExamDiff Pro can compare text and binary files, and directories.
In computing, fc (File Compare) is a command-line program in DOS, IBM OS/2 and Microsoft Windows operating systems, that compares multiple files and outputs the differences between them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is similar to the Unix commands comm , cmp and diff .
Guiffy SureMerge is a data comparison utility. In addition to comparing files, the program is capable of doing side-by-side comparison of directories and archives. [1] The program is also capable of performing automatic 3-way file merges. It is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Unix operating systems.
Beyond Compare is a cross-platform proprietary data comparison utility. The program is able to compare files and multiple types of directories , as well as archives . [ 1 ] Beyond Compare can be configured as a difftool and mergetool of version control systems , such as git .